Charles Moore, who died last week, took some of the most memorable photographs of the civil rights struggle.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/parting-5/
The photographs are still shocking.
In one, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — America’s foremost advocate of nonviolent social change — is manhandled like a common thug in a Montgomery, Ala., police station.
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Charles Moore died Thursday at his home near West Palm Beach, Fla.
Link: Photographer Moore dies at 79 | TimesDaily.com | The Times Daily | Florence, AL
Mountaineer and photographer who recorded the Everest expedition of 1953
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/10/alfred-gregory-obituary
There are some people who, by their presence and solidity, immediately impress, and Alfred Gregory, who has died aged 96, was one of them: the grave, lined face, the faded blue eyes puckering into ready laughter under a mane of silver hair, the slim sturdiness of physique and self-contained dignity. A former major in the Black Watch, the photographer with the team that made the first ascent of Everest in May 1953, and one of the stalwarts of that expedition, friendly with and respected by most of the climbing heroes of my youth, he was, in his diffident and self-effacing way, one of the crucial elders of the mountaineering tribe.
Photographer who snapped Freud, Bacon and the bohemians of Soho
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jan/27/harry-diamond-obituary
The photographer Harry Diamond, who has died from a brain haemorrhage aged 85, captured the “faces” of bohemian Soho in the 1960s and 70s. He frequented the London watering holes favoured by artists including Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, and soon became known as the “man in the mac” who was always carrying a camera.
Mr. Stock was a photographer whose intimate and evocative portraits captured the essence of jazz performance and helped shape James Dean’s moody public persona.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/arts/design/15stock.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
“The goal for the photographer is to be visually articulate. If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it art or not, we photographers should always try to pass on our observations with the utmost clarity.”
As many picture editors and researchers know well, Mr. Glover’s dedication to the collection and accuracy of its contents set industry standards the world over
Link: PDNPulse: William Glover, Founder of The Granger Collection Image Library, Dies at 76
There is nothing worst for a photographer, like for an actor, to be typecast. For Dennis Stock, who passed away this week, that is what happened. Ultra famous for the iconic images he took of James Dean just before he became famous, he had to drag this notoriety like a canon ball tied to his foot throughout his whole career. To a point that few people know the rest of his work. Which is a shame.
Dennis Stock, whose photographs may have done almost as much to create James Dean’s public persona as the actor’s own performances, died Monday in Florida.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/parting-4/
“Dennis Stock seems impeccably contemporary in his perceptions, whether they be of splendid nature or ‘peccable’ humanity,” the critic and essayist Ralph Pomeroy wrote in “Contemporary Photographers” (1982)
An example of the kind of thing we would talk about a lot was compostion. During our last talk, without any sense of bragging or ego, Dennis Stock said, “for whatever reason, I was given the ability to frame anything. I can make a great composition instinctively.” He was stating a fact. Just look at his pictures. He also deeply believed in the precepts of HCB in regard to it not being enough to capture the moment, you had to also frame that within a pleasing geometric composition. For Dennis, this is how you catch the eye of the viewer, and this is how you make your pictures memorable.
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/10/AR2010011001441.html?wprss=rss_world
British press reports said the journalist, Rupert Hamer, 39, was the first British reporter killed covering the conflict in Afghanistan, now in its ninth year. The photographer was identified as Philip Coburn, 43, and initial reports said his injuries were serious but not life-threatening.
We are still speaking of her as if she is alive, for it is so difficult to accept that our beloved colleague is gone. Michelle Lang, young, smart, engaged to be married, “a helluva journalist,” as our editor- in-chief said Wednesday amid the t
via www.calgaryherald.com: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Somnia/2397999/story.html
We are still speaking of her as if she is alive, for it is so difficult to accept that our beloved colleague is gone. Michelle Lang, young, smart, engaged to be married, “a helluva journalist,” as our editor- in-chief said Wednesday amid the tears that flowed in the newsroom, killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.
many of you have seen this book before, but i am sure many of you have not….my first work in print….i publish it again here now only because my friend Masaaki Okada, who was the designe…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2009/12/face/
many of you have seen this book before, but i am sure many of you have not….my first work in print….i publish it again here now only because my friend Masaaki Okada, who was the designer/editor, died on December 21….Masaaki was a tremendous influence on me as a person and as a photographer….my first collaborator…
McLeroy worked at the newspaper for 29 years until taking a buyout in 2007, then became a freelance photographer. A slideshow on mysanantonio.com illustrates his range, from coverage of Pope John Paul II’s visit to the Alamo City in 1987 to a clever shot
via San Antonio Express-News: http://www.mysanantonio.com/obituaries/McLeroy_was_E-Ns_master_photographer_for_29_years.html
His full name was Robert Earl McLeroy Jr., but in the newsroom of the San Antonio Express-News — and everywhere the enthusiastic photographer roamed in the city taking photos of its people — he was known as “Mac.”
He got beneath the surface of people — and things.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/magazine/27Penn-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
I didn’t read credits then — or, anyway, not at the start — but soon I realized that I was collecting the work of the photographer Irving Penn. It was his vision that I craved — that I still crave when I think about what photography can be. Whether Penn was shooting a nude, a glove or Truman Capote, he honored the truth of his subjects at a particular moment. He knew that just as a rose’s petals will fall, every moment will fade, but if the photo succeeds, de Kooning’s secrets will remain.